Why and When Employees of Family-Owned Business Demonstrates Unethical Behaviour?
Subject Areas : General Management
Keywords: Shame-Proneness, Unethical behavior, Negative Group affective-tone , Family-Owned Enterprise,
Abstract :
The objective of this empirical study is to explain how Group affective-tone and collective shame are related to unethical behaviour and under what boundary conditions. We use theories of social identity and affective tone for understanding family business employees. The target population was Pakistani family-Owned Businesses, where most of the family businesses are part of a gig economy. We were able to manage a suitable sample size of 441 using survey methodology The results showed that collective-shame mediates the relationship between negative-group-affective-tone and unethical behaviour under two conditions i.e. Shame proneness and organizational Identity for the family firm. The research has implications for the family firms operating in Gig economies.